colostrum

Borrowed from Latin colostrum.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɒstɹəm/

colostrum (usually uncountable, plural colostra)

1. (medicine) A form of milk produced by the mammary glands in late pregnancy and the few days after giving birth. Human and bovine colostrum is thick and yellowish. In humans, it has high concentrations of nutrients and antibodies, but it is small in quantity.
2. A mixture of turpentine and egg yolk, formerly used as an emulsion.

• beastings
• beest
• beestings
• beistings
• beistyn
• biestings
• bisnings
• first milk
• fore-milk
• green milk

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /koˈlos.trum/, [kɔˈɫɔs.trũː]

colostrum n (genitive colostrī); second declension

1. Alternative form of colostra

Second declension.